Posted May 25, 2024, 4:46 AM
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Mississauga and Brampton are most similar to Hamilton and Oshawa in that they are self-contained cities. Most people who live in these places also work in these places. This reflected in the high local transit ridership in all four of these places. If people live outside Toronto but work in Toronto, the chance of them using local transit is very low. Mississauga and Brampton are also very industrial cities, just like Hamilton and Oshawa.
Malton, Rexdale and Jane-Finch are essentially one neighbourhood, but separated by a political boundary. Mississauga overall is probably more similar to Scarborough than it is to Etobicoke. Etobicoke is much older and not centred around a mall...
Oakville and Markham are very similar to each other in their adherence to New Urbanism.
Ajax is similar to Toronto in that it has a fully public waterfront.
South Mississauga and south North York are similar in their lack of consideration for TOD (e.g. broken corridors such as Lawrence East, large gaps between parallel corridors, lack of pedestrian walkways to corridors).
North and central Mississauga and North Brampton are similar in having entirely new corridors between concessions to increase the amount of major transit routes (e.g. Williams Parkway, Sandalwood Parkway, Glen Erin Drive, Bristol Road, Confederation Parkway).
Etobicoke, North York, and Scarborough have very few cycling facilities compared to the 905 due to the city's focus on the downtown bike network.
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